List of United States senators born outside the United States
This is a list of United States senators born outside the United States. It includes senators born in foreign countries (whether to American or foreign parents). The list also includes senators born in territories outside the United States that were later incorporated into the United States (except for those born in the British colonies and territories in North America (or in the temporarily independent former British colonies and territories in North America) that would go on to form the United States of America).
Birthplaces of incumbent foreign-born United States senators
See also
[edit]- List of current United States senators
- List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States
- Natural-born-citizen clause (United States)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Born in the British colony of Nova Scotia, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in County Londonderry, Ireland, at the time part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- ^ Born in Saint Croix, at the time part of the Danish West Indies under British occupation, in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- ^ Born in what was then the independent Kingdom of Hawaii.
- ^ Born in the Spanish colony of Louisiana.
- ^ Born in Funchal, on Madeira Island, to American parents.
- ^ Born in the French colony of Louisiana.
- ^ Born in Geneva, at the time part of the Republic of Geneva and now part of Switzerland.
- ^ Gallatin won election to the Senate in 1793, and took the oath of office, but on the same day a petition was filed by nineteen Pennsylvania Federalists protesting that Gallatin did not have the minimum nine years of citizenship required to be a senator. After two months of deliberation, the matter went before a Senate vote where Gallatin was removed from the Senate with a party-line vote of 14–12.
- ^ a b c Born in the British colony of Upper Canada, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Antigua, in what is now the independent country of Antigua and Barbuda.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Trinidad, in present-day Trinidad and Tobago.
- ^ Born in the Panama Canal Zone, a U.S. territory in present-day Panama.
- ^ Born in the British colony of New Brunswick, in present-day Canada, to American parents.
- ^ Born in the British colony of Prince Edward Island, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in the Kingdom of Prussia, in present-day Germany.
- ^ Born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, in present-day Germany.
- ^ Born in the British colony of New Brunswick, in present-day Canada.
- ^ Born in Saint Thomas, at the time part of the Danish West Indies under British occupation, in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
References
[edit]- Senators Born Outside the United States – United States Senate